Windswept Gallery

The Windswept Gallery sits in Penzance, a proper working artist's space rather than the polished sort of place you'd expect to find in a seaside town. You're looking at contemporary work, mostly - paintings, sculpture, prints - displayed without any of that intimidating gallery pretence that puts ordinary visitors off. It's the kind of spot where artists actually spend time, so you might catch someone in the studio itself, which beats any audio guide.

Who'll enjoy it? Anyone with even passing interest in what local artists are making right now. It's not a major attraction that'll eat up your afternoon, but if you're wandering Penzance anyway - which you likely are between swimming and pasties - it's worth a twenty-minute detour. Kids will find it either mildly interesting or deadly boring depending on their patience for standing still in front of abstract work.

The real strength is the lack of tourist trap energy. No one's pushing you to buy a £40 art book about the Cornish landscape. If you're staying at Lands End Camping & Glamping nearby, this makes for a rainy-day activity that doesn't cost the earth and gives you a genuine sense of what creative types are actually doing in Cornwall rather than what Instagram tells you they're doing.

Bring cash if you like something - card machines in small galleries can be temperamental.